books that finished me

Love in the Big City

Sang Young Park · 2021

Come anima mai

Rossana Soldano · 2022

La stanza di Giovanni

James Baldwin · 2017

Lie with Me

Philippe Besson, Molly Ringwald · 2019

Tin Man

Sarah Winman · 2019

Nuotare nel buio

Tomasz Jedrowski · 2021

Chiamami col tuo nome

André Aciman · 2017

Una vita come tante

Hanya Yanagihara · 2016

La canzone di Achille

Madeline Miller · 2019

The Long Game

Rachel Reid · 2022

Heated Rivalry

Rachel Reid · 2024

Orgoglio e pregiudizio

Jane Austen · 2018

1984

George Orwell · 2013

75th ANNIVERSARY EDITION “Orwell saw, to his credit, that the act of falsifying reality is only secondarily a way of changing perceptions. It is, above all, a way of asserting power.”—The New Yorker In 1984, London is a grim city in the totalitarian state of Oceania where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. Lionel Trilling said of Orwell’s masterpiece “1984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present.” Though the year 1984 now exists in the past, Orwell’s dystopian classic remains an urgent call for the individual willing to speak truth to power.

Cime tempestose

Emily Brontë · 2018

Dio di illusioni

Donna Tartt · 2014